Who has pets that think everything in the house belongs to them...

[WillParkinson]

And you should be freaking grateful they allow you to touch it?

Our demon dog Brownie...



Seems to think she's being generous by allowing us to sleep on the bed. Even when we get in, though, she stretches out across the width of the bed, forcing our feet to or off the edge. If we try to move her she throws a tantrum by whining and growling and jumping back up on the bed and assuring us that we're damn lucky she's patient.

[HopeHoops]

1. That pretty much DEFINES cats.

[TZ]

7. +1000

Dogs have owners, Cats have staff!

[guitar man]

2. This dog

Thinks she is the sole owner of this couch...or she used to, when she sees me coming to sit down now, she has learned to move lest she winds up with my foot in her ass :P

[hobbit709]

3. Think hell. They KNOW it's theirs.

[graywarrior]

4. My cat

who snarls at me if I remove him from MY sofa and who insists on sprawling his fat body between us in OUR bed. And if we dare to move during the night, he meows until one of us gets up to add food to his bowl. We are doomed because of this cat.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Your question leads me to believe that you think there is any other kind.

Silly person.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. What other kind is there?

One of my cats actually hisses at me if I try to move her from any place where she wants to be.

[Ikonoklast]

8. You have *got* to be kidding.

One little doggie, and you think you're being put out a tad?

I have six cats.

Six.


It's like dealing with the Mafia, except more ruthless.

And violent.

And furry.

"Waddaya mean, pal, 'Tuna is off da menu tonight'? Youse know, dat's a nice sofa youse got dere, it'd be a shame if sumpin' bad should happen to it, capisce?"

"Now open up a can like a good boy, and go get your shine box."

[csziggy]

9. "Meow Mafia" should be a YouTube video

Cats with Jersey accents taking over the house!

:rofl:

[Brigid]

17. New reality show:

"New Jersey Felines!" :rofl:

[cherish44]

10. Yeah that's my kitties

It's their house, their stuff. I am but their humble servant who feeds them gives them neck rubs.

[KurtNYC]

11. I share a bed with 2 labs but

they leave room for me.


I don't remember training them to do this. Seems like they just did it on their own.

[Dappleganger]

13. How cute, they left you a little space...

thankfully our lab sleeps on the floor, her bed jumping days are well behind her.

[bigwillq]

15. Too cute.

:hi:

[TorchTheWitch]

16. neither of my dogs liked sharing the bed with me

though they liked it in the winter when it was colder (they had thick fur so they usually wanted to be lying on bare floor or in the bathtub). They liked the bed as long as I wasn't in it with them which I'm pretty certain has everything to do with me being a REALLY restless sleeper... so much so that for decades I've always had the mattress directly on the floor so I won't roll out (you can really hurt yourself falling out of a bed). I just don't feel safe sleeping up high like on the sofa or someone else's bed. Many a time I wake up finding that I'm half in the bed and half on the floor, so if the mattress wasn't right on the floor I would have tumbled out.

Both my dogs (though they lived at different time periods) chose a certain part of the bed to sleep on... my previous dog would scrape all the pillows and blankets into a big mountain right in the middle and flop on top of it, and the current dog wants nothing to do with blankets or pillows and just wants to lay on the bottom sheet on the side of the bed that I don't sleep on... probably because that's where most of the pillows and blankets are, and he doesn't like them even touching him, and if any of them are in the way he pushes them farther onto "my" side (usually with his big old noggin - apparently, it's more efficient then kicking them away).

Your doggies look so cute curled up on "their" side of the bed. Funny how dogs can do the most interesting things that they just do all on their own without ever being taught, and they always seem to be really clever things that other people think are so cool that you taught it to them when you didn't.

[Dappleganger]

12. We have dachshunds...

'nuff said.

[annabanana]

14. Miz Molly is QUEEN

[TorchTheWitch]

18. not me, I'm Alpha in my house

Though both my previous dog and the current one played with things they knew they weren't allowed to when I wasn't home and cleverly tried to disguise that they did. Like, I used to have this little throw pillow that sat in a chair that had fringes on it that neither of them seemed to be able to stay away from (oooo! fringes!). Though they lived at different times and never knew each other, they both really really coveted that pillow (oooo! lovely dangling fringes!) and both would sometimes play with it when I wasn't home and put it back in the chair when they were done with it thinking I wouldn't know. It was so funny how shocked they were that I knew they had... "OMG! How did she know! She must have a spy!" Well, of course I knew... they didn't put it back exactly right and it would be damp with slobbery goo. It's so strange how both of them coveted that same pillow so much and did the same thing with it including trying to hide that they had played with it by putting it back in the chair.

Brownie is exhibiting Alpha behavior and in an aggressive way. This isn't a good thing and may very well become a problem especially because this sort of behavior tends to escalate. This seems to be a lot more common with people who have very small dogs. They don't recognize the Alpha coveting aggression and don't think it's a problem because the dog is small... next thing you know they snap at their owner or other people and even bite (yet they still don't think it's a problem even if the dog does it all the time over practically everything). Weird how so many people find this a problem with larger dogs but don't see it as a problem with small dogs even when it's at a point where they can't use their own sofa or their own little monster will attack them.

Nip this behavior in the bud. Brownie needs to learn she's not the boss of the household and she can't get away with showing any kind of aggression when you want to use your own things. She should be showing absolute acceptance when you want her off the bed or to let go of something or whatever it is that you want of her. If she's already showing nonacceptance it's going to escalate if you don't stop it and take on the roll of the Alpha. This kind of behavior isn't cute or funny... it's the beginning of an aggressive dog that will bite it's own owner if you don't deal with it now (and it will be a HELL of a lot easier to deal with it now rather than wait till it escalates to baring teeth, snapping and nipping or even biting).

[applegrove]

19. Apparently my keyboard is just there for my Monster to walk back and forth over.

[backwoodsbob]

20. shoot..try arguing with Buddy Guy

He is passive/lazy but has figured out he can lay pretty much anywhere he wants by simply laying there and refusing to twitch a muscle to help when you try to move him.

Finding a new place to sit is better than a hernia :)